Author Archive ‘ Rashi Varshney ’

Online filing of income tax returns for the financial year 2012-2013 has increased 40 per cent, compared to last year, and more than 82 lakh returns were e-filed till July 29, 2013. On July 30, more than 85,000 returns per hour were recorded and a total of 6.23 lakh returns were e-filed on that spec...

Cleartrip Travel Services Pvt Ltd, which runs the online travel booking site Cleartrip.com, has rolled out route-planner cum ticket booking service Waytogo that enables users to find routes from point A to point B around the globe by air, road and rail. The OTA has partnered with Melbourne-based Rom...

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in India has introduced a smartphone app called MEAIndia for providing information regarding all its wings, along with 120 missions (embassies or consulate), through one app. As of now, the app is available on Android and iOS platforms for free. MEAIndia acts a...

Telecom operators in India seem to be going all out to woo customers and the latest to join the bandwagon is Vodafone India as it has tied up with the microblogging site Twitter to provide free access to the site for a span of three months. All Vodafone users (both pre-paid and post-paid customers) ...

Bangalore-based Cubito Solution Pvt Ltd, which owns and runs the shared cab service portal Cubito, has raised under $100K (Rs 59 lakh) in angel funding from unnamed Indian angel investors. The funds will be used to hire more people and expand into cities like Pune and Hyderabad by the end of this y...

The Indian Railways is planning to roll out free Wi-Fi facility at New Delhi railway station, one of the busiest stations in the country, within the next 3-4 months. Free Wi-Fi is already available in several Indian airports. “A Mumbai-based company has been given the job to make the New Delhi sta...

Telecom service provider Aircel Ltd has signed a three-year agreement with Wikimedia Foundation to offer free access to Wikipedia on mobile phone to Aircel’s 60 million subscriber base. As part of the partnership, Aircel subscribers will be able to access zero.wikipedia.com (text only) and m.wikip...

Cleartrip Travel Services Pvt Ltd, which runs the online travel booking site Cleartrip.com, has started offering bus ticketing on its site. For the same, the company has partnered with bus ticketing sites redBus and Travelyaari. The OTA already offers bookings for hotels, flights and trains. For rev...

Professional networking site LinkedIn has introduced LinkedIn Sponsored Updates for companies that run their official pages on the site. The feature will enable firms to promote their business content including videos, presentations and product news in the newsfeeds of other LinkedIn members, thus e...

Design company Tata Elxsi has enrolled the first startup for its incubation programme incub@TE. The startup, called Big V Telecom Pvt Ltd, is a tech firm that offers customised business telephony solutions for businesses and consumers. The incubation agreement was signed between Madhukar Dev, MD and...